OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity is 35. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards effective restriction of unhealthy food marketing to children: unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence	149
Do personality profiles contribute to patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior in adulthood? A prospective cohort study	139
The Home Environment Interview and associations with energy balance behaviours and body weight in school-aged children – a feasibility, reliability, and validity study	118
Association of physical activity with utilization of long-term care in community-dwelling older adults in Germany: results from the population-based KORA-Age observational study	102
Environmental and practice factors associated with children’s device-measured physical activity and sedentary time in early childhood education and care centres: a systematic review	100
Physical activity and academic achievement: an analysis of potential student- and school-level moderators	87
The effectiveness of new urban trail infrastructure on physical activity and active transportation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of natural experiments	86
Effects of physical activity on depressive and anxiety symptoms of women in the menopausal transition and menopause: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	81
Offering a lifestyle intervention to women of premenopausal age as primary prevention for cardiovascular disease? – assessing its cost-effectiveness	79
U.S. Adolescent Rest-Activity patterns: insights from functional principal component analysis (NHANES 2011–2014)	75
Accelerometer-derived physical activity patterns and incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study	74
Real-life experiments in supermarkets to encourage healthy dietary-related behaviours: opportunities, challenges and lessons learned	68
International evaluation of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) Global instrument: comparative assessment between local and remote online observers	59
Cultural adaptations and methodological innovations to group model building for the systems actions to reduce malnutrition in all its forms in Southeast Asian countries and China (SYSTAM CHINA-SEACS I	59
Implementation of elementary school physical education quantity and quality law through school district audit, feedback, and coaching	58
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of active travel, organised sport and physical education with accelerometer-assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in young people: the Internati	57
Impact of ¡Míranos! on parent-reported home-based healthy energy balance-related behaviors in low-income Latino preschool children: a clustered randomized controlled trial	57
The health, cost and equity impacts of restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt and sugar products across the transport for London network: a health economic modelling study	53
Effects of a three-armed randomised controlled trial using self-monitoring of daily steps with and without counselling in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes—the Sophia Step Study	52
A latent transition analysis of physical activity and screen-based sedentary behavior from adolescence to young adulthood	52
Calorie reformulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the effect of manipulating food energy density on daily energy intake	47
Cooking skills, living alone, and mortality: JAGES cohort study	46
Adolescent physical activity profiles as determinants of emerging adults’ physical activity	45
Effects of differential measurement error in self-reported diet in longitudinal lifestyle intervention studies	44
Age-related differences in eating location, food source location, and timing of snack intake among U.S. children 1–19 years	44

Incentivising public transport use for physical activity gain: process evaluation of the COVID-19 disrupted trips4health randomised controlled trial	43
Adherence to Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines among infants and associations with development: a longitudinal study	42
Elementary school compliance with a state recess minimum requirement by racial and geographic factors: a cross-sectional study	42
School-based physical activity in relation to active travel – a cluster randomized controlled trial among adolescents enrolled in the school in motion study in Norway	39
Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major Belgian food companies	39
Evaluating the impact of the universal infant free school meal policy on the ultra-processed food content of children’s lunches in England and Scotland: a natural experiment	37
Barriers and enablers of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) in physically inactive adults: a focus group study	36
Can the bias of self-reported sitting time be corrected? A statistical model validation study based on data from 23 993 adults in the Norwegian HUNT study	36
“Balancing work and movement”: barriers and enablers for being physically active at Indian workplaces – findings from SMART STEP trial	36
Device-measured sedentary time and intensity-specific physical activity in relation to all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: the UK Biobank cohort study	35
The effectiveness of digital interventions for increasing physical activity in individuals of low socioeconomic status: a systematic review and meta-analysis	35
The impact of interventions in the built environment on physical activity levels: a systematic umbrella review	35
Associations of steps per day and step intensity with the risk of diabetes: the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)	35